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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Netiquette IQ - A New Category of Netiquette You Probably Never Heard Before

There are varieties of etiquette and Netiquette according to certain topics such as job seeking, invitation and many others. I had never heard of data breach etiquette so I wanted to republish this right away.

In a sobering
commentary on the times, a new data breach etiquette has emerged--the expected
steps you will take when you become the victim of a significant breach. Notice
the use of the word "when" here, not "if."

"Breaches
and data theft have become the new normal, to the point where a data breach
etiquette has developed--a set of best practices that set the pros apart from
the flailers," says an article at InfoWorld.

An estimated
2,164 data breach incidents, exposing 822 million records, occurred in 2013,
the largest number ever says a report by the firm Risk Based Security. The
number is expected to increase this year by all accounts.

The result is that "there was a time
when incidents like this, involving the theft of data from a prominent firm,
were capable of shocking the public and sending corporate managers and public
relations departments into a tizzy. No longer," the article notes.

CIOs are offered a series of nine data breach
rules to follow after their organization has suffered a data breach. They range
from disclosure, to damage control to technology fixes. Follow them faithfully,
and a CIO may survive the ordeal, the article says.

As offered up by InfoWorld, the nine
rules include the following:

No. 1 – Disclose sooner rather
than later. "The biggest mistake that organizations make is to sit on
evidence of a security incident, only to have word spread by way of a third
party."

No. 2 – Tell the whole truth.
"Say what you know (and what you don't know) and take your lumps."

No. 3 – Get your crypto straight.
"In the heat of a security incident, the specifics of the technology your
company used to secure its data may seem like a small and irrelevant detail,
but it's not."

No. 4 – Communicate across
channels. "Your organization needs a consistent and coherent message to
convey, and it needs to communicate it across all available channels: email,
blog posts and press releases."

No. 5 – Customers come first, Wall
Street second. "Companies that seem overly concerned about the impact of
an incident on their stock price risk alienating customers who want reassurance
that their data is being protected."==========================================In
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